The After Humans Shows

Satanus

Do any of you watch those? I don't, cuz i disagree w the concept. Also, at present, i suspect that they may be being put there as a softening up measure on the general public.

What do you think?

S

villabolo

I'm sure I know what you're referring to. I've read a book about it. However, if you could be a little more specific in order to avoid any misunderstandings.

Villabolo

Satanus

They are apocalyptic scenarios, where humans dissappear, for some reason. They show the cities crumbling and nature slowly recolonizing everything.

S

d

Satanus, I have seen those shows I do not believe in Armageddon.But I do think humans will eventually one day cease to exist.

JeffT

Life after People on the Discovery channel.

Interesting show about what would happen to all our stuff if we're not here to maintain it. Also the effect on animals and other parts of the environment. They don't make any attempt to explain why we're gone. Makes me wonder what JW's think the new system will really look like. Is Jehovah going to make the sewers work magically?

Beth Sarim

Life After People has to be one of the most interesting shows. So many things in the world exist that I would have never known about had it not been for that show.

villabolo

Yes, I'm familiar with the idea. Only read the book though.

I love the idea of civilization's infrastructure crumbling into nothing. A fitting end for an arrogant and destructive way of living. You can already see it in parts of Detroit. I think more of that will happen as people migrate away from many cities and depopulation, to one degree or another, sets in.

The following poem, by Percy Shelley, speaks to the future.

OZYMANDIAS

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away

Villabolo

Satanus

Humans are among the most resiliant of species on the planet. We are up there w roaches in our ability to adapt. We even live in some places that roaches don't. If society ceased, we would adapt and carry on. I believe that that is what we have done, since our first appearance on the planet. The last ice age may have virtually pushed us out of what is now north america, and our neanderthal form went extinct and it's remainder fused w our present form.

All things change. That is the law of evolution, and indeed, one of the laws of the universe. Current world leaders and wannabee leaders like al gore and religiopoliticalists like to redefine natural changes in the earth, the weather, the solar system and in civilization as crises. Instead of acceptance, they redefine changes as threats. They construe changes as evil threats from satan or from those who desire greater freedom.

In order to keep control of the masses, they foment fear of changes. These 'after humans' shows are another fear factor being introduced into the human consciousness. The psychos at the top of our current capitalist food chain would rather see the world devoid of humanity, than lose their prescious positions, anyway.

S

Satanus

'arrogant and destructive way of living. You can already see it in parts of Detroit. I think more of that will happen as people migrate away from many cities and depopulation, to one degree or another, sets in.'

I'm starting to think that cities are merely an opportunistic outgrowth of the caveman, a reaction from fear, a huddling together for warmth and survival. Unfortunately, there are many weaknesses to which the city is prey; dictatorial central control, problem of grabage disposal/recycling, depletion of resources, stiffling of creativity, to name few.

S

villabolo

Tiger, tiger, burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye?

Could frame thy fearsome symmetry?

London Bridge is falling down

London Bridge is broken down,
Falling down, falling down.
London Bridge is falling down,
My fair lady.
Build it up with wood and clay,
Wood and clay, wood and clay,
Build it up with wood and clay,
My fair lady.
Wood and clay will wash away,
Wash away, wash away,
Wood and clay will wash away,
My fair lady.
Build it up with bricks and mortar,
Bricks and mortar, bricks and mortar,
Build it up with bricks and mortar,
My fair lady.
Bricks and mortar will not stay,
Will not stay, will not stay,
Bricks and mortar will not stay,
My fair lady.
Build it up with iron and steel,
Iron and steel, iron and steel,
Build it up with iron and steel,
My fair lady.
Iron and steel will bend and bow,
Bend and bow, bend and bow,
Iron and steel will bend and bow,
My fair lady.
Villabolo

The After Humans Shows

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